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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

since my website would have too much data to upload it via my isp, do I need to have a Linux server, or can my Linux desktop do this?

You can use dyndns to get a fixed URL (like http://yourname.dyndns.org) for your own computer. And yes, you can install a HTTP server (and more) on a desktop machine (although any application that's not needed for the server tasks (like a web browser) might be a security risk, theoretically).

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# can Nvu make all those elements? If not, what Linux software can, given that I do not want to learn to code HTML at this point?
# Can Dreamweaver do it? If so, can I build it with Dreamweaver and then host it on a Linux server?

No, not at all. With those tools, you can create plain HTML pages, but not server-side logic. Server-side logic means to dynamically create client-side output (like HTML pages); it's a kind of pre-processing.
Common languages for that are PHP, ASP.NET (Windows-only), Java, partly Python. PHP is the simplest and most common one.

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# view pictures and be able to download large copies
# enter a section that ...

Learning how to accomplish (server-side) programming will cost you several man-months, at least. Moreover, these tasks are very common, and should be already implemented in many content management systems (CMS). CMS's have a lots of popular modules which you can include or exclude. So I'd suggest to focus on them.

For a start:Plone (BTW, that's included with the Ubuntu repositories - well, I'm joking - as it's going to be a bit harder than just installing some pre-configured software)CMS matrix

Be warned, there'll be a steep learning curve. Getting your tasks done is half a vocational training, at least.